Word: balkanize
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Some onlookers are inclined to dismiss the current Greek revolt as merely another Balkan flare that will soon fizzle out. This eruption, however, involves every fighting Greek male, and has already provided "room for future generations" by killing and wounding several thousands. The rebellion, moreover, aside from its being the most serious in recent years, has international complications that are unpleasant to behold...
...BALKAN PACT (Feb. 9, 1934) signed at Athens by Foreign Ministers Maximos, Tewfik, Titulescu and Jeftitch of Greece, Turkey, Rumania and Yugoslavia pledges all signatories to defend the frontiers of each. Attached was a secret protocol, since divulged, extending the Pact to guarantee all Balkan frontiers against aggression by any Balkan State, and to punish any Balkan State which may join any State whatsoever which attacks a Balkan State. Unless they turn out to be scraps of paper, the Balkan Pact and protocols mean cast iron peace in Europe's inflammatory cockpit...
...closed by a metal flap. Day & night, usually at 20 minute intervals, the prisoner hears the flap click, knows that he is being peeped at by his guards. This makes most prisoners nervous, has come to be accepted as a prison commonplace. In Marseille last week one of the Balkan terrorists arrested after the assassination of Yugoslavia's King Alexander finally cracked under the strain of being peeped...
...King Carol is a strong character," said Minister Owsley. "After the assassination, of his brother-in-law King Alexander only the courage of the Balkan rulers and the patience of the people averted disaster. For years the Balkans were used as the breeding grounds of war. Now that has been reversed. Peace is coming out of the Balkans...
...have King Carol's personal assurance," confided Minister Owsley in conclusion, "that he prefers to do business with American firms. In fact all the Balkan countries are most friendly and anxious to outfit themselves with American products, but for prohibitive tariffs which make it almost impossible for them to trade with this country...